The Commission stresses the importance of not disrupting the ongoing implementation of the present Ecodesign Directive and safeguards it by strictly limiting the proposal and scope for discussion to the extension of the product scope.

The Commission's report COM(2008) 64 of 11 February 2008 concluded that a number of amendments to the Regulation should be proposed to address the following weaknesses identified during the review process: the need to extend the principle of equality of charges to direct debits in order to establish a level playing field between different payment instruments and avoid undermining the objectives of this Regulation by not making all electronic payment instruments operating cross-border subject to the principle of equality of charges; enforcement problems due to the absence of identified national competent authorities and of out-of-court redress bodies for disputes related to the Regulation; disruption of the internal market in payments caus ...[+++]ed by divergent balance-of-payments (BoP) statistical reporting obligations and unclear scope of the article on BoP reporting.

Table 2: Action values (Article 3(2)) (unperturbed rms values)

The Commission stresses the importance of not disrupting the ongoing implementation of the present Ecodesign Directive and safeguards it by strictly limiting the proposal and scope for discussion to the extension of the product scope.

(11) To avoid disrupting the clearance of goods carried in travellers' personal baggage, it is appropriate, except where certain material indications suggest commercial traffic is involved, to exclude from the scope of this Regulation goods that may be counterfeit, pirated or infringe certain intellectual property rights when imported from third countries within the limits of the duty-free allowance accorded by Community rules.

Whereas in order to avoid serious disruption to the clearing of goods contained in travellers' personal luggage, it is necessary to exclude from the scope of this Regulation goods which may be counterfeit or pirated which are imported from third countries within the limits laid down by Community rules in respect of relief from customs duty;